GeoAPI Implementation Specification - Open Geospatial Consortium

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GeoAPI Implementation Specification

This standard defines a Java language application programming interface (API) including a set of types and methods which can be used for the manipulation of geographic information structured following the specifications adopted by the Technical Committee 211 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

Documents

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Document title	Version	OGC Doc No.	Type
GeoAPI 3.0 Implementation Standard with corrigendum	3.0.1	09-083r4	ISC
GeoAPI 3.0 Implementation Standard	3.0	09-083r3	IS

Official model files and encoding schemas

http://www.geoapi.org

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Overview

The GeoAPI Implementation Standard defines, through the GeoAPI library, a Java language application programming interface (API) including a set of types and methods which can be used for the manipulation of geographic information structured following the specifications adopted by the Technical Committee 211 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

This standard standardizes the informatics contract between the client code which manipulates normalized data structures of geographic information based on the published API and the library code able both to instantiate and operate on these data structures according to the rules required by the published API and by the ISO and OGC standards.

Additional Resources

Public Site For more information on GeoAPI including developer resources and documentation about programming language bindings, please visit www.geoapi.org. For the official OGC member approved versions of the standard, see the Download information below.

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